Thor: The Dark World

                  

Disney-owned Marvel studios has proven itself an efficient production line for sumptuously entertaining superhero fare over the past few years, with comic-book titans Iron Man, Thor and Captain America all showing up in their own movies before coming together to save the world with wisecracking panache in Joss Whedon's 2012 box-office smash The Avengers. This year's Iron Man 3 proved that the team's individual members maintain solo appeal with its deft, Ben Kingsley-fuelled subversion of superhero stereotypes. Now it's the turn of Chris Hemsworth's Thor to return in The Dark World, a sequel to 2011'sKenneth Branagh-directed origins story about the Norse demigod turned. Marvel's Thor: The Dark World continues the big-screen adventures of Thor, the Mighty Avenger, ashe battles to save Earth and all the Nine Realms from a shadowy enemy that predates the universeitself. In the aftermath of Marvel's Thor and Marvel's The Avengers, Thor fights to restore orderacross the cosmos...but an ancient race led by the vengeful Malekith returns to plunge the universe backinto darkness. Faced with an enemy that even Odin and Asgard cannot withstand, Thor must embarkon his most perilous and personal journey yet, one that will reunite him with Jane Foster and force him tosacrifice everything to save us all.